Mon, December 3 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Hydroxyurea for Children with Sickle Cell Anemia in Sub-Saharan Africa – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Studies Show Improved Sickle Cell Disease Outcomes Worldwide – American Society of Hematology (free) AND ASH 2018: Large Single-Arm Trial of Hydroxyurea for Sickle Cell Anemia in Sub-Saharan Africa – The ASCO Post (free) AND Sickle cell anemia treatment safely lowers disease burden in African children – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (free) AND ‘From Nothing to Gangbusters’: A Treatment for Sickle-Cell Disease Proves Effective in Africa – New England Journal of Medicine (10 articles per month are free)

2 – 2018 American College of Rheumatology/National Psoriasis Foundation Guideline for the Treatment of Psoriatic Arthritis – Arthritis Care & Research (free)

3 – 2018 Global Nutrition Report (free)

Commentaries: 2018 Global Nutrition Report reveals malnutrition is unacceptably high and affects every country in the world, but there is also an unprecedented opportunity to end it – UNICEF (free) AND ‘Diabolical’ diets: four in 10 children consume sugary drinks daily – The Guardian (free) AND ‘No country is untouched’: Global Nutrition Report highlights compounding malnutrition – Devex (free)

4 – Global Atlas of Cardiovascular Disease 2000-2016: The Path to Prevention and Control – Global Heart (free)

5 – Medical Screening Tests You Do and Don’t Need – Consumer Reports (free) (via @EricTopol)

“Some may be life-saving, but others can waste time and money—and pose risks”

6 – Current opinions for the management of asthma associated with ear, nose and throat comorbidities – European Respiratory Review (free)

7 – Viewpoint: The Challenges of Improving Treatments for Depression – JAMA (free)

8 – Outdoor Artificial Nighttime Light and Use of Hypnotic Medications in Older Adults: A Population-Based Cohort Study – Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (free)

Commentary: Light pollution may cause insomnia in older adults – American Academy of Sleep Medicine (free)

9 – Unscrambling the relations of egg and meat consumption with type 2 diabetes risk – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (free)

Commentary: LLU School of Public Health study finds meat, not eggs, is linked to type 2 diabetes – Loma Linda University School of Public Health (free)

Related Studies: Red meat consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: 3 cohorts of US adults and an updated meta-analysis – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (free) AND Changes in Red Meat Consumption and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Three Cohorts of US Men and Women – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

10 – Associations of Smoke‐Free Policies in Restaurants, Bars, and Workplaces With Blood Pressure Changes in the CARDIA Study – Journal of the American Heart Association (free)

News Release: Smoke-free policies associated with lower blood pressure – American Heart Association (free)

Editorial: Necessity of Preventing Cardiovascular Disease by Smoke‐Free Policies (free)

Commentaries: Smoking bans tied to lower blood pressure in non-smokers – Reuters (free) AND Smoking bans in restaurants, workplaces linked to lower SBP – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Related Study: Updating the evidence relating smoking bans to incidence of heart disease – Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (free)